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From WordPress to Qwik

June 1, 2024
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Paweł Rutkowski

I rewrote my site from WordPress to Qwik. I wanted better performance and a modern stack.

Qwik logo

Qwik is built around performance and a small payload. The main idea: the “resumable” mechanism. The page loads fast because you don’t hydrate the whole JS – only what’s needed for a given interaction loads. The rest of the code “sleeps” until the user triggers it. In frameworks like React/Vue you usually get HTML from the server first, then the client loads the full JavaScript to make the page interactive. That’s costly. Qwik loads only the fragments needed “here and now”.

Qwik architecture diagram

On the optimization side I did: lazy loading (what’s in the viewport), pre-fetching, code splitting, minification and compression. In Lighthouse the site scores 100%.

Lighthouse score

Moving to Qwik gave me a faster site and better tooling results. If you’re building or rebuilding a project and care about performance, Qwik is worth a look.

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Paweł Rutkowski

Full-stack developer, entrepreneur and enthusiast of new technologies.